[Suhit Gupta]

http://blog.seanalexander.com/2008/...ixesItFast.aspx

"A few weeks ago, I was asked if wanted an opportunity to review a new software app under embargo that is designed to solve one of the great remaining problems with any music library - fixing album art and metadata. Over the years between WMP/Zune/iTunes conversions of my library, converting all of my tracks into 160kbps MP3, migrating between HDDs and just plain idiosyncracies with ID3 tags and where album art gets stored, my library has become a severe mess. TuneUp promised to fix it and I have to say aside from a few minor nits, it does a commendable job and is now available for download in two versions: TuneUp and TuneUp Gold."

Very interesting, and timely, for me at least. After years of resisting and sticking with my simple iRiver iHP-140 (which by the way still rocks), I switched this past weekend to an iPhone. Since most of my music was in WMA and OGG, I now have to go through the tedious process of converting everything to MP3 VBR so that it will work with the Apple product, and am using a converer from 4musics.com. But it would be nice to run TuneUp on the library after I am done to update my ID3 tags because they are woefully managed so far. I should be able to report back in a week or so on tihs since I am still in the process of format conversion, but in the mean time, if someone else gives this a try then please report back.

[Suhit Gupta]

http://blog.seanalexander.com/2008/...ixesItFast.aspx

"A few weeks ago, I was asked if wanted an opportunity to review a new software app under embargo that is designed to solve one of the great remaining problems with any music library - fixing album art and metadata. Over the years between WMP/Zune/iTunes conversions of my library, converting all of my tracks into 160kbps MP3, migrating between HDDs and just plain idiosyncracies with ID3 tags and where album art gets stored, my library has become a severe mess. TuneUp promised to fix it and I have to say aside from a few minor nits, it does a commendable job and is now available for download in two versions: TuneUp and TuneUp Gold."

Very interesting, and timely, for me at least. After years of resisting and sticking with my simple iRiver iHP-140 (which by the way still rocks), I switched this past weekend to an iPhone. Since most of my music was in WMA and OGG, I now have to go through the tedious process of converting everything to MP3 VBR so that it will work with the Apple product, and am using a converer from 4musics.com. But it would be nice to run TuneUp on the library after I am done to update my ID3 tags because they are woefully managed so far. I should be able to report back in a week or so on tihs since I am still in the process of format conversion, but in the mean time, if someone else gives this a try then please report back.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Suhit Gupta

After years of resisting and sticking with my simple iRiver iHP-140 (which by the way still rocks), I switched this past weekend to an iPhone. Since most of my music was in WMA and OGG, I now have to go through the tedious process of converting everything to MP3 VBR so that it will work with the Apple product, and am using a converer from 4musics.com.

Ugg...I'm sorry you picked those formats. MP3 is the only way to go. That's got to be painful converting them - did you have them in ultra-high bitrates, like 320 kbps or something? Converting to MP3 might leave you with some crappy sounding files.

[txa1265]

Way back when I was using my PDA as main MP3 player (HP Jornada 430, then the 545 and 72x HPC's), I had all of my stuff in WMA. When I bought the gen 1 iPod when it first came out I re-ripped everything because the quality of the transcoding was just awful!

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by txa1265

When I bought the gen 1 iPod when it first came out I re-ripped everything because the quality of the transcoding was just awful!

Yeah, ripping to MP3 is really the best approach. Or, possibly, ripping to WMA Lossless or FLAC then transcoding to MP3 for day to day use.